YOU GOT YOUR PEANUT BUTTER IN MY CHOCOLATE!!! 
Posted on 02/06/2007 10:52:46 AM PST by blam
Muslim protests as Israel digs at holy site
Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
Tuesday February 6, 2007
Guardian Unlimited (UK)
Israeli archaeologists say that work at the Dome of the Rock is necessary on safety grounds. Photograph: Yoav Lemmer/AFP
Israeli archaeologists began digging up a stone ramp near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City today, bringing immediate protests from Palestinians and condemnation from the king of Jordan.
The work is the first stage in a scheme to build a new, raised walkway up to the site, which is known as the Haram al-Sharif to Muslims and the Temple Mount to Jews. Next to the walkway is the Western Wall, which dates from the time of the Second Temple and is the holiest site in Judaism.
Israeli archaeologists say the work is necessary on safety grounds, but Muslim leaders fear damage to the foundations of the site.
Archaeological work in Jerusalem's Old City is frequently contentious and has triggered violence in the past.
The second intifada erupted after the then Israeli prime minister, Ariel °©Sharon, walked on to the Haram al-Sharif in 2000.
Experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority are also excavating at three places to the south-west corner of the site in what is now the Jerusalem Archaeological Park, where engineers plan to install a series of pylons to support the proposed new walkway.
Dozens of armed police stood guard today as two mechanical diggers began taking up the stone ramp. Large numbers of police kept Palestinian men under the age of 45 away from the site, but there were at least three protests elsewhere in Jerusalem.
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Muslim protest? Have never heard of such a thing.
Is their any place on earth that isn't a "holy site" to them??
JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Israelis and Palestinians demonstrated Tuesday in protest of Israel's construction repairs at the Temple Mount site in Jerusalem, sacred to Muslims and Jews.
Palestinian organizations followed through with threats of rocket attacks if construction work continued, with at least five attacks on the western Negev region, the Jerusalem Post reported. Numerous buildings were damaged, but there were no injuries reported.
At various sites outside Temple Mount and around Jerusalem, Arabic youth hurled stones at police, and YNetNews reported 11 of them were arrested.
Muslims are concerned the excavation could weaken and damage the foundations of mosques inside the site's walls.
The construction to reinforce a crumbling walkway also has Israeli opponents, who said the issuance of the construction permit was illegal. Opponents include Meir Ben-Dov, an archeologist and excavation director near the Temple Mount for 39 years. He said there is no need for the current extensive work and that it was possible to settle for a "cheap and simpler" solution, the report said.
There's only one way to stop the Muslims protests and we all know what it is.
Next week, "Israeli Archaeologists Discover Evidence Of Prior Jewish Ownership Of Muslim Holy Site" and everybody in the world will look surprised.
(As if it isn't obvious that the Jews would've been there before the Muslims.)
YOU GOT YOUR PEANUT BUTTER IN MY CHOCOLATE!!!
"The second intifada erupted after the then Israeli prime minister, Ariel °©Sharon, walked on to the Haram al-Sharif in 2000"
A "holy place" that can't withstand the mere presence of a human being? ROP my a%$#.
The muslims are concerned that the Israelis will find the Arc of the Covenant and a scroll written by Abraham stating that it was Isac, not Ishmael that he tried to sacrifice at the Temple Mount.
Well if there isn't, there is bound to be some raghead out there, prepard to make one up.
No they're not afraid at all.
IF any evidence is found contrary to their beliefs,they'll simply deny that as well.
You have to understand; they are the original Commie Libs, and all leftist emulate their tactics.
Are you trying to say that you can't reason with them?
Last week a show on The History Channel highlighted archeological efforts to document the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt. At every dig, Egyptian soldiers stood there with guns to "oversee" the dig. After one was excavated and showed that the Jews were living in Egypt over 3500 years ago, the Egyptians ordered the site to be filled-in and replanted over to hide it. It made me want to puke. The Muslim world clearly will do anything to further its lies.
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